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Dec30
United Airlines Cancels Hundreds of Flights

The past three weeks have been brutal for the nation’s second largest airline.  UAL Corp. (UAUA) the parent company of United Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights between December 16th and Dec 30th as snow storm after snow storm rocked their primary hubs including Chicago O’Hare and Denver International. Crews shortages made the situation even worse.  

I had the unlucky chance of flying on both December 16th and December 28th through Chicago. 

DSC00107edited.JPGUnited cancelled many flights on Christmas day, one of the lighter travel days in the heavily traveled holiday week between Christmas and New Years, to get their schedule back in order.  Countless crewmembers were out of place and needed to get back to their specific locations.  Planes were also in locations that they were not supposed to be at. 

"We proactively canceled a small percentage of flights in order to better acoommodate our customers and get them to their destinations safely and as quickly as possible," United spokesman Jeff Kovick said.  

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